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| Financial Times: |
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products — Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
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LinkedIn: Matt Deitke, Pooja Bandekar, and Roshan Sumbaly
Bluesky: @davelee.me and @danabra.mov
Threads: @zuck, @vishwanathsarangkeller, @raphaelgrignani, @mosseri, @chriscox, and @vishalshahis
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license — Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
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LinkedIn: Khalid El-Arini and Jesse Wu
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closes up 6.5% — Meta is debuting its first major artificial intelligence model since the costly hiring of Scale AI's Alexandr Wang nine months ago …
More: eWeek, Coinpaper, Android Headlines, Spyglass, 9to5Mac, and Fortune
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| New York Times: |
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when …
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| Antonis Pothitos / Reuters: |
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action — Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday …
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read — Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't have access to the Kindle Store.
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Forums: r/kindle, r/LouisRossmann, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta — Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.
More: Claude, The New Stack, and Claude on YouTube
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google introduces “notebooks” in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a dedicated space to organize chats and files — The Gemini app is getting deeper NotebookLM integration after the initial source support introduced last year. Google is introducing the concept of “notebooks.”| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing — In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
More: AI Forensics, Gadget Review, The Economic Times, and The Decoder
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Forums: r/anime_titties, r/pwnhub, r/TrueReddit, and Beehaw
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships and revenue generated by podcasters on the platform hit $629M in 2025, up 33% YoY — On Patreon, podcasts have become the largest content category in terms of revenue and they've continued their upward trajectory, says chief operating officer Paige Fitzgerald.| Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: |
Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security — Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon.
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Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/ControlProblem, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Financial Times: |
An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto for oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz — Country's oil exporters' union says toll to be paid in cryptocurrency and vessels monitored for weapons — Iran will demand that shipping …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/CryptoCurrency, r/Buttcoin, r/CryptoCurrency, r/politics, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems — Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system …
More: Amazon Web Services, Last Week in AWS, Amazon Web Services, SiliconANGLE, and CIO.com
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Meta shutters an internal, employee-built leaderboard, dubbed Claudeonomics, tracking staff token usage, due to the data “being shared externally” — Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.
More: Gizmodo and Business Insider
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an “advisory role” at the end of June — Veteran Microsoft executive Julia Liuson is leaving after 34 years. … Microsoft is losing another veteran executive.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring — Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching …
More: Tech Times, Digital Trends, and iPhone in Canada
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing — Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant's own chips … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
FBI: US victims lost nearly $21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches — U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise …
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| Isaac Yee / CNN: |
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin — A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data - including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics …
More: NetAskari. X: @jbsdc, @jack_raines, @unveiled_chinax, @intcyberdigest, @netaskari, @intcyberdigest, and @intcyberdigest
Forums: r/China and r/TrueAnon
| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March — A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now … | Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability — The wearable camera maker will cut 145 employees as part of a restructuring plan — GoPro plans to cut 23% of its workforce … | CoinDesk: |
Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed — The settlement avoids a trial and ends the dispute over the RR/BAYC NFTs, which claimed to parody Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most recognizable NFT brands.
More: The Block, Bloomberg Law, The Crypto Times, Reuters, AMBCrypto, and Blockonomi
| Jacob Trefethen / OpenAI Foundation: |
The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research — Alzheimer's disease is one of the hardest unsolved problems in medicine, and one of the most devastating.
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| CNBC: |
CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will “for sure” reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after “strong demand” from individuals in its latest funding round — OpenAI plans to reserve a portion of shares for individual investors in what's expected to be a blockbuster initial public offering.| Melia Russell / Business Insider: |
New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire — Follow Melia Russell … - Patlytics builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation.
More: AlleyWatch, Artificial Lawyer, LAW.com, Patlytics, Bloomberg Law, citybiz, Pulse 2.0, and Business Wire. LinkedIn: Melia Russell
| Nikkei Asia: |
RationalFX: tech layoffs totaled 78,557 in Q1 2026, with the US accounting for 76.7%; nearly half were attributed to AI implementation and workflow automation — PALO ALTO, California — The true impact of artificial intelligence on employment is yet to be felt even as the global tech … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting — In response to escalating concerns about child safety online, OpenAI has unveiled a blueprint to enhance U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom.
More: CNET, Decrypt, OpenAI, OpenAI, and The Verge
X: @bradrcarson, @ncmec, @katiemiller, and @openainewsroom
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